Education Debate Quotes

Charter schools are not a panacea.

Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off - like debating the most recent toothsome plot twists of 'Big Love' - who, of course, have no dog in the fight.

The N.E.A. [National Education Association] is a terrorist organization.

Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.